Spreading, pinching, and coalescence: the Ohnesorge units

MA Fardin, M Hautefeuille, V Sharma - Soft Matter, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Understanding the kinematics and dynamics of spreading, pinching, and coalescence of
drops is critically important for a diverse range of applications involving spraying, printing …

Dynamic duos: the building blocks of dimensional mechanics

MA Fardin, M Hautefeuille, V Sharma - Soft Matter, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Mechanics studies the relationships between space, time, and matter, which can be
expressed in terms of the dimensions of length L, time T, and mass M. Each dimension …

Microbubble formation and pinch-off scaling exponent in flow-focusing devices

W Van Hoeve, B Dollet, M Versluis, D Lohse - Physics of fluids, 2011 - pubs.aip.org
We investigate the gas jet breakup and the resulting microbubble formation in a microfluidic
flow-focusing device using ultra high-speed imaging at 1× 10 6 frames/s. In recent …

On the jets produced by drops impacting a deep liquid pool and by bursting bubbles

FJ Blanco–Rodríguez, JM Gordillo - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2021 - cambridge.org
Here we provide a unified theoretical description of two different physical situations in which
liquid jets are expelled out of the bulk of a liquid as a consequence of the capillary collapse …

The formation of a bubble from a submerged orifice

JA Simmons, JE Sprittles, YD Shikhmurzaev - European Journal of …, 2015 - Elsevier
The formation of a single bubble from an orifice in a solid surface, submerged in an
incompressible, viscous Newtonian liquid, is simulated. The finite element method is used to …

Bubble generation in quiescent and co-flowing liquids

I Chakraborty, G Biswas, PS Ghoshdastidar - International Journal of Heat …, 2011 - Elsevier
A numerical simulation has been accomplished to analyze the problem of dynamic bubble
formation from a submerged orifice in an immiscible Newtonian liquid under the condition of …

Effects of the gas feed on bubble formation in a microfluidic T-junction: constant-pressure versus constant-flow-rate injection

S Mi, NT Weldetsadik, Z Hayat, T Fu… - Industrial & …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Gas injection plays an important role in bubble formation in microfluidics. The effects of the
gas feed on the formation of N2 bubbles in a microfluidic T-junction is highlighted under …

Dynamics of bubble formation in highly viscous liquids in a flow-focusing device

C Zhang, T Fu, C Zhu, S Jiang, Y Ma, HZ Li - Chemical Engineering …, 2017 - Elsevier
This article reports the dynamics and mechanism for N 2 bubble formation in highly viscous
glycerol-water mixtures in a flow-focusing device by using a high-speed digital camera. The …

Pinch-off of bubbles in a polymer solution

S Rajesh, SS Peddada, V Thiévenaz… - Journal of Non-Newtonian …, 2022 - Elsevier
The formation of gas bubbles in a liquid occurs in various engineering processes, such as
during foam generation or agitation and mixing in bubbly flows. A challenge in describing …

Dynamics of bubble formation in highly viscous liquid in co-flowing microfluidic device

X Lin, F Bao, C Tu, Z Yin, X Gao, J Lin - Microfluidics and Nanofluidics, 2019 - Springer
In this work, the dynamics of bubble formation in a highly viscous liquid in a co-flowing
microfluidic device is experimentally investigated. The evolution of gaseous thread in the co …